1995 Regional Totals for West Africa

All Years for West Africa: 2016 — 2013 — 2007 — 2002 — 1998 — 1995

1995 Summary Totals for West Africa

Data Category	Definite	Probable	Possible	Speculative
Aerial or Ground Total Counts	51	0	0	0
Aerial or Ground Sample Counts	2,626	765	765	0
Dung Counts	0	611	151	0
Informed Guesses, Undocumented Aerial or Dung Surveys and GIS Extrapolations	83	0	4,119	688
Other Guesses and Other Extrapolations	0	0	0	4,866
Total	2,760	1,376	5,035	5,554

No changes between current and previous report.

Elephant Estimates

Country	Definite	Probable	Possible	Speculative	Range Area (km²)	% of Regional Range	% of Range Assessed	IQI¹	PFS²
Benin	0	0	1,400	150	21,152	9	68	.00	2
Burkina Faso	1,469	583	583	0	21,320	9	46	.36	3
Côte d'Ivoire	551	250	810	585	36,688	16	66	.24	2
Ghana	245	427	1,416	443	31,250	14	29	.08	2
Guinea	0	0	0	1,000	9,316	4	0	.00	3
Guinea Bissau	0	0	0	35	331	0	100	.00	4
Liberia	0	0	0	1,783	22,053	10	55	.00	2
Mali	0	611	151	45	34,021	15	53	.40	2
Niger	0	0	0	800	2,387	1	99	.00	3
Nigeria	0	0	1,065	550	31,291	14	23	.00	2
Senegal	0	0	20	20	8,447	4	100	.00	3
Sierra Leone	0	0	0	0	2,921	1	0	.00	3
Togo	0	0	85	143	5,911	3	95	.00	3
Totals	2,760	1,376	5,035	5,554	227,088	4	49	.14	3

¹IQI: Information Quality Index: This index quantifies overall data quality at the regional level based on the precision of estimates and the proportion of assessed elephant range (i.e. range for which estimates are available). The IQI ranges from zero (no reliable information) to one (perfect information).

²PFS: Priority for Future Surveys, ranked from 1 to 5 (highest to lowest). Based on the precision of estimates and the proportion of national range accounted for by the site in question, PFS is a measure of the importance and urgency for future population surveys. All areas of unassessed range have a priority of 1. See Introduction for details on how the PFS is derived.